Master's Degree Programme in Intercultural Management and Communication
Description
This MA programme is available only for those students who transfer from Vaasa to Jyv盲skyl盲.
The Master鈥檚 Programme in Intercultural Management and Communication (IMCo) is your key to global understanding. This full time two-year programme combines cultural and communication studies with management studies. Its aim is to educate professionals who will work in networked societies and who will develop and apply organizational knowledge with expertise in communication in multicultural contexts. The programme offers you the opportunity to develop into a specialist in managing diversity and communication processes in intercultural settings.
With a Master's degree from the programme, you will be a specialist in intercultural communication and qualified for working in both public and private organisations, for example as an international coordinator, project manager, human resources manager, information officer, public relations specialist, researcher or educator.
Learning outcomes
After completing the programme the student will
- know how to manage intercultural and multilingual communication in multicultural environments
- know the ways in which multiculturalism structures societies
- understand the mechanisms of communication and the role of digital media in a networked society
- be able to navigate confidently and smoothly in a multicultural, multilingual world.
Degree structure
- KVVA103 Introduction to Intercultural Communication (5听肠谤)
- KVVS106 Theories and Models of Intercultural Communication (5听肠谤)
- KVVA202 Media and Online Cultures (5听肠谤)
- KVVS2000 International Management (5听肠谤)
- IMCS1013 Organisational Communication (5听肠谤)
- Optionality
- Select 0-5 credits
- XSU0005 Finnish for Foreigners 1 (5听肠谤)
Language Studies (0 - 5聽cr)
Foreign students are required to take XSU0005 Finnish for Foreigners 1 course. If you already know Finnish you may choose a higher level course instead. Finnish students don't need to take Finnish course but may choose any 5 credit course instead of the Finnish 1 course.